Well im going to make this very clear for you. How many assists can be considered "easy points" vs how many goals can be considered easy goals. The ratio is probably shocking to you. You can't score a goal making a d to d pass. But you can get a point. That was the message i was trying to send with my "biased example".
Bolded: oh please. I asked if 4 secondary assists were better than 3 goals and you said yes. Yes they're points, but by your logic i could never argue goals > assists with you as long as the guy who has more assists has more points. So wouldn't that mean, you'd also say 0 goal 50 assist player is better offensively than 49 goal + 0 assist player. Is that hypothetical ridiculous? Of course, but you made it black and white for yourself.
Im using goals scored as one important element to compare two players offensive abilities, because you know, offense is ultimately putting the puck in the net. I thought we were stricly comparing these guys offense, and not staring too much at the position they played? Suddenly the most important factor in offense (scoring goals) is not a factor at all just because one is a defenseman? Like what? That would be like me saying forwards don't have to play D, but Matthews is pretty good at D, so if we compare Matthews to EK defensively, Matthews must be on a whole different level.
Did i ever say the player who scores more goals is automatically the better offensive player? No. I only said "are we going to dismiss the fact Matthews scores 3x more goals". As such your Zack Smith bull**** is not even relevant to anything i've said lol.
